BRADLEY Roberts surfacing at the Principality Stadium three years ago renewed his family’s ancestral link to Wales thanks to his maternal grandmother’s birth in Llandysul. It entitled him to find a Welsh cap at the end of a circuitous route from his native Durban via Belfast.
Protecting his new status meant Roberts leaving Ulster for a Welsh region, in his case the Dragons, where his career has been brought to a shuddering end by a back injury at 29 after five Test appearances, all off the bench. One of nine hookers chosen by Wales in the last two seasons, his final act ...